Hi Denis, I'm interested, count me in! -- Ndungi Kyalo "if you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far get company" http://biblia.kenya.or.ke On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Areba Collins <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
While we are all looking for a kenyanized way of handling this, i think we need to take a step back, look at the realities of oss. For one, kenya borrows heavily from our colonial masters, so international is achievable. Secondly, i think its better to have a very high level of customization to suit many scenarios. This will attract more users and hence feed back and support.
On 10/5/09, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:58 PM, bernard kioko <bernsoft@gmail.com> wrote:
I am wondering if there is any "kenyan" open source payroll software out there.....
I am considering working on an Open Source Payroll System for Kenyan market but I do not wish to do if anyone out there has a similar project - I
will
prefer to support an existing initiative.
I was involved in payroll software dev for some time (note: not offering to be on team just changiaring kidogo;-)
One finds that all *international* always need extensive localisation to cater for local market. They included tax brackets, taxable benefits, allowances, loans, cooperative(sacco), statutory deductions.. etc among a host of parameters a number of which changed at each year's budget. Used to include bank export (e.g.'sfi') files for banks to accept/ auto process direct into staff accounts.
Payroll softwares also needed KRA certification/approval and was mandatory to cite the approval -P9s, P10 and P11..etc. Otherwise various packages 'just did their own things', for example, < http://www.ratio-magazine.com/20080907151/Kenya/Kenya-Revenue-Authority-and-...
In short, you can never go wrong, let me re-phrase that, you have a BIG market ahead if you develop one FOSS-based.
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